Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Boilerplate: ContentBridge is a web accessible content management and supply chain automation platform for the media & entertainment industries. It provides easy to use yet robust workflows for automating and managing the distribution and marketing functions of content centric businesses in the movie, television, recorded music, and music publishing industries. With video, audio, image and meta-data transcoding & electronic delivery capabilities, ContentBridge drastically reduces cost and time to market while significantly increasing revenue, efficiency, and quality control.

Existing website

Inspirational websites

But also the 'brochure' feeling of this template and the presence of the navigation bar. We don't like how the orange area is on every page though and only feel that it should be on the main/first page
* http://www.templatemonster.com/joom…31601.html

Page descriptions

We are looking to completely re-design and replace our current website, which is static and hard to update. We are moving to Joomla CMS and need designs that evoke cutting edge design for media/software company, but with corporate flair for added seriousness.

We are the foremost experts in digital supply chain management and our site needs to convey that. We are not a playful Web 2.0/3.0 startup. Our product is similar to that of a professional software application (FinalCut Pro, Avid, After Effects, Autodesk Inferno) and is not for consumers but rather for enterprise installation or usage. Our audience is Content Centric Businesses: Copyright Owners, Distributors, Licensors, & Syndicators, Post Production & Service Providers, Media Technology Vendors / Value Added Resellers.

Your deliverable is a layered Photoshop file that can be cut and split into regions which we will transform into a template for our site.

Your design may incorporate lots of open space (in white or the current site's dark blue background) and almost no structural pixels to be seen. Big titles, and colorful solid panels are suggested to illustrate and highlight product offerings & content elements that visitors are likely to be interested in.

Overall site elements:
Logo/branding: top left, serves as link back to root
Navigation bar: top of page
Search: top right

Example menubar items:
News
Products
Solutions
Support
About Us
Contact

Page 1: Homepage/Primary landing & entry point -
* Featured element on the main page is to be a CSS-based (not flash based) slide scroller that will feature images that we want to highlight.
* Below the slideshow/scroller will be general marketing copy that highlight our products and solutions
* Designer’s choice: 1, 2, or 3 column layout